Blast from the past

I was cleaning up some old boxes of stuff when I came across:

http://www.heyrick.co.uk/random/acorn_a3000_brochure.pdf
Acorn A3000 brochure. That poor girl, she’s using AcornDTP!

And:

http://www.heyrick.co.uk/random/acorn_september1989_retail_price_list.pdf
Where the software PC emulator costs as much as a basic tablet, and…
…holy hell! A FileStore costs how much?!?!?!?
[don’t even ask about the A440 – izza a year doon t’pit ta pay fer zat, sonny!¹]

¹ And the winner of the crappest accent ever goes to…….

don’t even ask about the A440 – izza a year doon t’pit ta pay fer zat, sonny

1. I believe the script writers put a space between the glottal stop (I think it is) and the next word.

2. Back in school, with the accent still in evidence, I was asked to read a ‘northern’ part during English. No success, could make head or tale of things. A two day re-write by the teacher, in normal English text and what I read out loud was exactly what other people read on their unedited text.

3. izza? zat? Franglais time.

Try “Its a year daan t’ pit t’ pay fer that”, although I’m more used to stuff like “Na den dee, are da comin aat tneet?”. Which should be as clear as day to all.

A two day re-write by the teacher, in normal English text and what I read out loud was exactly what other people read on their unedited text.

;-)

izza? zat? Franglais time.

Living most of my life in “The Home Counties”¹ and “The West”², I think the closest I ever really got to “The North” was Banbury.

T’was not mocking northern accents so much as the price that, today, would seem unbelievable.

“Na den dee, are da comin aat tneet?”. Which should be as clear as day to all.

I make that, more or less: 私の友人は、あなたが夜に来ている？
:-P

¹ Hampshire (lived), Sussex (school), Surrey (went shopping a lot).

² As in Somerset…

Na den dee

There’s a reason people close to Sheffield refer to Sheffielders as “dee dars”¹
Think thee and thou.

Actually I was from a well spoken part of town. My cousin in Heeley was different thing.
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